Show ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE OF CRUISES Plans Laid For the Sailing of the Yacht Norna SCIENTISTS WILL GO ALONG I I BVEUY nrponTAST PORT ix TIE WOULD WILL BE TOUCHED M > rnn i a CIy lcnuilt Scliooncr 23 Feet yncht IIS Tcct Iu Length < Inches Wide nnd lo Feet Deep The Owner Expect to Gather Curiosities riiotosranUs and hitherto osities Plotool18 Information ot ImnaMIsheU to Unu I ormton Great Auluc t PERTH A3IBOY X J Sept 16 The schooner yacht Nora is at this place receiving re-ceiving her nnal overhauling preparatory t etarung on one of the most unique I cruises around the world that have ever I been undertaken About October 1 her and a party of owner N J Weaver nd pary scientific mn are t sail from New York After Bailing south and taking her final L departure te o the sore of America at Jacksonville the first sop will be made at the Bermudas and from there she will sail to the Azores thence to the south tuast of Spain and into the Mediterranean ns ranean Places little known between will be and the Dardanelles Gibraltar 1arele w1 ad usited < I thai direction the Black sea I und tha i th SEA OF AZOV I i WIll be the ojective int5 There the ligrht draught launches of which theo the-o na tames two will be put into use will Russia and the rivers of southern wil ic l exi > ored An ttS will be made to push on 10 the great salt lakes ot that counut about nmch BO iltue Is known On the return to the Atlantic short Mops v ill be made at the well known iies 01 northern Afrca Upon reaching ubralta the ivornaB prow will be turn 4 < northward In tngush waters the vachi will t > e entered in all contests to winch she may be eligible and a she edgle olds several first prizes won In the New I ork Yacht Cub races she may give 3 jrojd account of herstnf The yacttt will gC mil though the hkager Rack and visit IUccs along the Zuyder Zee before pro wiine further none ana WIn EO later I I u Irutand and the bro ItiaiiUs I Folowinsr < the west coast of Ireland the Noiiia a rtiurta will be tall for the Bay ot 01118 Biscay and the north coast of Spain Ale wsulng the cat of Portugal the journey will b continued south TO llor rjcoo and the cast cf the Spanish and rcc Fencl African territories until the Congo is reached The Congo and the country trough wjlch it flows will be thoroughly xIaored l before passing on to the Cape of ixmoimg the southern point thMU Hope 10uD1IS oi triceTHE THE YANKEE YACHT will sail up the east coast through the wil Luth Indian ocean across the Mozambique the of que channel to iiadagascar on te gulf A ii I ana Into the Arabian se then around tho The course will ten oe coast into the Rolf of Cambay to Bombay Ti i rivers ana outoitheway paces ot Lombay will be explored Some time will > bpent In Siam and the islands of bpnt Sumatra Java and Borneo r mla Nr w Zealand and the South Sea islands ill aiso be visited Then the Norna and uIIr party will visit Papua and the Philip p j no isands and will S to Formosa twea and Japan Through the Behrlng l irait the jacht will sail into the Arctic 031 and westward along the unknown id5 norai of Siuena going as far as SL Thaddeus bay Returning the coast or Alaska will be visited Then following ilu west coast of the United States Central America stops will iiioo and Cetr meric il of which litue is ill i > < < made at lances malc Known South America vtli be visited iium Cape Horn to the Orinocco then > ne LojiMj an iea the Windward islands C ie 1 Antilles and the West Indies whence 11 t c JNoriut will return to New York The Nornj is a CLVDEBU1LT SCHOONER YACHT 11 > feet in length 2 feet 6 Inches wide alld II feet deep The yacht carries a on w of sixteen men captain two mates hcf and assistant besides a mess cold a col-d two cabin boys Commodore Weaver confidently expects that the collection of > uriopities photographs and hitherto unpublished un-published information which his party wil gatSer i wU be by far the most r nmrkabie end valuable that has ever been ought from the comparatively unknown < ountrips which will be visited Throughout Through-out the vo ag the Norna will fly the Atlantic Yacht club Hag |